Same experience, we had a Newfoundland which are bred as water rescue dogs. We took it to a lake for the first time, where everyone was swimming and she immediately jumped in the water and started trying to pull people out. She did this all day and she invented the process herself where she would get you to take her leash then she would take her leash in her mouth and paddle to shore. Kids had fun but she was a basket case.
I have a rat terrier, and when we moved to the country, it was unbelievable. He can find exactly where a mole is hiding in their tunnels, dig them out with his snout and kill them. Our Pyrenees tries, but he just ends up biting and pawing at dirt . . . it's pretty funny to watch him try to do what the other instinctively knows.
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